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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:39PM (#50340474)
Location: Bengaluru, India (UTC+5:30) Remote: Yes, preferred Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right role Technologies: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, FastAPI, AWS, SQL, PyTorch; LLM agents, RAG, tool calling, evaluations, voice AI Résumé/CV: https://sauravtom.github.io/assets/pdf/Saurav_Kumar_Resume.p... Email: [email protected] GitHub: https://github.com/sauravtom/

I'm Saurav, a hands-on engineer with 10+ years building and shipping software. I'm looking for a senior or founding engineer role working on applied AI, voice systems, or backend infrastructure.

At Delfino AI (YC S22), I was CTO and built voice agents for healthcare operations: navigating IVRs, waiting on hold, speaking with insurance representatives, and returning structured information for eligibility, prior authorization, and claims workflows. That work involved deterministic execution paths, fallbacks, human handoffs, and debugging failures across calls and integrations.

Before that, I co-founded Likeo (acquired), where I optimized a virtual try-on pipeline to run 2x faster while reducing AWS GPU infrastructure costs by 10x. At xAGI Labs, I built 12+ production AI systems for startups, combining retrieval, model APIs, structured outputs, and external integrations.

I've also led an eight-engineer team and worked directly with founders on product and technical decisions. I can take ownership from backend design and implementation through model integration, evaluation, deployment, and production debugging.

If your team needs someone who can build AI features and own the systems around them, I'd be happy to talk.

Re:WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:26PM (#50038921)
can you expose an endpoint for “most requested articles” list, would be great
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:19AM (#49165317)
Location: San Fran / Bengaluru (I split my time between the two) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, FastAPI, AWS, LLM agents, RAG, tool calling, evals, voice AI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SQL Résumé/CV: https://sauravtom.github.io/resume Email: [email protected]

I’m a hands-on AI engineer and technical founder with 10+ years of experience building production products. Most recently, I was CTO at Delfino AI (YC S22), where I built voice agents for healthcare workflows—navigating IVRs, waiting on hold, speaking with representatives, and returning structured answers.

Previously, through xAGI Labs, I built 12+ production AI systems for startups and growing teams. I’m comfortable taking an ambiguous idea from architecture and prototype through deployment, evaluation, and reliability work.

I’m personally looking for project-based or fractional work, particularly:

- 0-to-1 AI/LLM products - Voice agents and phone automation - RAG, tool-using agents, evals, and production reliability - Rapid prototypes that need to become dependable products - Technical architecture or hands-on fractional CTO support

If you have an AI product that needs an experienced builder—not just a demo—I’d be happy to talk. Short, well-scoped projects and longer engagements are both welcome.

Re:Show HN: Find Faceless YouTube Channels with AI on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:21AM (#45952067)
same question
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:12AM (#43817791)
i am building a search engine for fashion with a virtual fitting room https://likeo.me
Re:Ultrathink is a Claude Code a magic word on Saturday April 19, 2025 @07:03PM (#43740157)
megathink sounds better
Very interesting. How would memory (or previous chat context awareness) work in the case of hot swapping, when multiple users to hot swapping models like threads.
Re:US blocking Swiss access to AI chips on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:44AM (#42838437)
is this somehow linked to greenland ?

Bitcoin enabled accelerated de-dollarisation

For society to move forward to a brighter future, we need to move away from the dollar standard of global trade.Bitcoin as a catalyst for de-dollarization? is it possible ?I am looking for ideas on how can we leverage its decentralized, censorship-resistant nature to accelerate the shift towards a more equitable global financial system.Let's discuss!

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:54AM (#42303352)
Location: India (Bengaluru/Gurugram) Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Growth Hacking with AI, Core Engineering and Product Management

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G9o7gA15_eHikvi4o8mL7x_P...

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sauraav007/

Open to full-time, part-time & contract opportunities.

Re:Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:59PM (#22891874)
Hi, I couldn't agree more with your concerns. I am working on a solution to solve this. Please reach out to me via email on my profile. Thanks
It's great for discovering new products. It would be nice to have amazon links to actual products right next to the reviews. It would also enable you to monetize your site with affiliate money.

Ask HN: BlueTick, the most exclusive social network

I am creating a community of the top 0.000001%. Together we will collaborate and solve the biggest problems facing humanity e.g Climate change/destruction of nature, large scale conflict/wars, inequality (income, discrimination), poverty, religious conflicts, government accountability and many more.To join this club you should either be a verified twitter/Instagram person or have a Wikipedia...

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Impressive progress. Did you wrote it all on your own or did you had ghostwriting help ?
This is a major pet peeve of mine. I use the breaker app to cut through the umm and hmmms but I wish there was a way to summarize what the speaker is saying as well, and cut away the part when they are just overiterating the obvious. (by comparing the transcribed audio to the footnotes perhaps)
JRE discusses everything from Comedy, MMA, Psychedelics, Mind-expanding revelations, Conspiracies, Insights, and Fitness & Health in a jovial environment. I personally like the varied profile of guests on the show and how Joe takes their listeners through a curiosity led journey of understanding the expertise of the guests. http://podcasts.joerogan.net
Does anyone know how this works in the backend ?
Re:Ask HN: What would you do with 5G? on Monday June 24, 2019 @09:04PM (#20270233)
Move to a remote mountain, that 5G radiation is dangerous to health.
Re:Keep a journal in your favorite messaging app on Thursday April 25, 2019 @05:22AM (#19746370)
Nice product, was looking for an Ohhlife alternative. How is the data stored, is there option to export data to dropbox/Gdrive ?
Someone should make a solar powered washing machine that runs off the grid and doesn't need to be fed with a water supply (recycles its own water usage, use UV beams to kill germs) Only external inputs are detergant and sunlight, output is dirt and heat.
Re:I Sell Onions on the Internet on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @11:27PM (#19735309)
Are you joining a carpentry school somewhere down south ?

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